More Confusion Over N’Zogbia Moving To Newcastle

News in the local Sunday Sun today that both Newcastle and Sunderland will be stepping up their efforts to sign former Newcastle winger Charles N’Zogbia.

Charles N’Zogbia – becoming too expensive? But the Sunday Sun is now reporting that Liverpool are now favorites to sign the winger, as owner Dave Whelan has put it out that N’Zogbia is now available for £9M, even though he has just one year left on his contract at the DW Stadium.

N’Zogbia’s wage demands are said to be around £60K a week, and that along with the high £9M asking price, could have Newcastle looking elsewhere to bring in another winger this summer.

But the fact is that the local Newcastle press is hardly consistent, at least when it comes to Charles N’Zogbia this summer.

Only last week it was being reported that Newcastle would be in for the player, and that his wages were not a problem – so it’s hard to know which reports to believe.

If we are to believe this report, then Liverpool are now favorites for the French International, and are ahead of both Newcastle and Sunderland, who are also interested in capturing the player.

We keep hearing from an inside source in the N’Zogbia camp saying he wants to come back to Newcastle, because he has a point to prove.

And of course he left the Magpies under a cloud after an argument with then manager Joe Kinnear, who mistakenly called him N’Somnia, but we suppose Newcastle could indeed be priced out of a move for the former Le Havre player.

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apperently according to the star matuidi has told wenger he wants to go to arsenal,, y the f**k duz him n gervinho wanna go there they must be deluded to think there gunna get 1st team football, gervinho wont be ahed of walcott, nasri, arshavin, n matuidi wont be ahead of song, ramsey, wilshere, diaby just stupid,, if matuidi goes there we shud try n get song or ramsey like

no1 seriously believes we’ll go for treacy do they,, onest wake up, why wud they go for him as a zoggy replacement wen hes not even better than marveaux lol,, amazing people believe anything a almost feel sorry 4 them

Journalists just speculate about everything, they rarely have any concrete information about transfers. Unless the club or the player say anything, then it’s unlikely that the information has any gravity, unless of course the players are stopping in local hotels and we get snippets of information.

I would like to think that all this talk about different players being linked with us creates a lot of confusion among the other clubs, and while they’re thinking about putting in a bid themselves it leaves us to do the real transfer work that no-one is aware of. Therefore we could be getting some good deals going on out of the public auctioning house that is the press!

Hopefully NUFC are interested in Moussa Sissoko. If I had to choose between Matuidi & Sissoko, I would buy Sissoko. I think we don’t need Matuidi as we have Tioté, but Sissoko&Tiote would be class. Sissoko will be star, at least in FM11. 😀

So Mevlut Erdinc’s price probably is 6,5 mln. Not too bad. I think he is a decent player, 15 goals in 2009-2010 tells it. However, I think that Ba will be the 1st choice if we play 4-2-3-1.

@mr.T…iote If we were to use that style of play I would be a very happy man, Imagine our new look, pacy, creative midfield, constantly switching positions, dragging defenders all over the place, there would be spaces opening up all over the final third of the pitch. I think Nzog should be the final piece of the midfield puzzle!

Is anybody else getting a bit concerned about fatboy not going to spend the money?,why hasn’t this deal happened,we know he wants to come back,we know his asking price and we know how much he wants a week,what’s the problem?,there’s players out there to be signed,Zoggy,Sturridge,Barnetta,why are we dragging our feet?wouldn’t it make sense to try and get the deals done and dusted early because we face competition for our targets from teams in Europe.we’ve spent 1 million on 3 players,do you think he’s going to spend 35m on the other signings we need?,as you can tell i’m slightly freaking out

We’ve spent at least £5m… That was Cabaye’s price. It’s very early in the transfer window, and it’s amazing that we’ve signed ANYONE so far – Newcastle have never been quick to move in transfer windows.

We will spend some money eventually, even if it isn’t as much as people would like (Erding, Barnetta, possibly Matuidi and N’Zogbia…).

MykToonFan,we got 4m-4.5m from West Ham for Nolan and we bought Cabaye for 4.3m,so we haven’t really spent anything.Can you explain why this deal hasn’t happened then after what i said?,and Pardew said all that £35m would be spent,or was that another classic Pardew lie,and if you read my post properly you’d know i wasn’t complaining,i was asking if anybody else is concerned about what is happening with the transfer money.

Spuggy,i’m over the moon with the business we’ve done so far,class signings,but Pardew said we could bring in up to 6 players during the transfer window,we’ve already signed 3 for roughly a mil,what i’m concerned about is that i don’t think he will spend the 35m(we were told was going to be re-invested on the squad)on 3 more signings.Like i said what’s happening with the N’Zogbia deal?,9m fee,£60k a week,90% of the fans want him back.And we should technically have more than 35m to spend,we got that money from the Carroll sale,we should have a summer transfer budget on top of that,i think the thing is i just don’t trust Ashley at all and that’s fuelling my paranoia,but i will follow your advice,going to get me some of that patience stuff.

i cant see zog back at the toon , i think it could be that lad from preston, its not ashlys style to buy quality , lets go for bthe cheaper option , you only need to walk round one of shops to see that

MrMojoRisin76 – lol I feel what you’re saying! I think it is very early days yet and its not the time to be panicing , but Im certainly anxious about the transfer window. But lets see how events unfold then Im sure there will more than one furious fan on the web site!

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